Apple Leaps ahead
 

Checkout the new G5 machine

www.apple.com

Thanks but no thanks :)
Edit - Nice machine though by the looks of it

You gets what you pays for.

Quality, pure quality. And so fast you'll meet yerself coming back...

Nice piece of kit, but for that money.....ouch.

£2,299. 00

Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
1GHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 128-bit SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
64MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem

can anyone find a similar-priced windows setup? ok so a monitor isnt included but it still makes me want one...

incidentally what makes a 64bit processor so differnt to a 32bit one?

my sister bought a G4... Mac OS X

then apple "updated" OS X, she can buy it on student discount for £70, then there is to be another update in sept, for another £70 (the second chargeable update this year) and some hardware requires the update.

to me the apple seems an expensive machine which you keep on paying for. At least with winblows you can run your hardware on older versions and, while you may not have some of the bells and whistles of the newer OS, you can still use it.

btw - one of the items Mac OS X in its early form doesn't support?

The IOMEGA Zip drive.

how many people use a zip drive though?!

since she and many others are using them at university I would think quite a few...

i wouldve thought that a zipdrive is seen as archaic now even among university types... you could get a cd writer for less....

I have to admit, when you choose a mac you do make certain sacrifices - but if you are know about them then a mac can be very rewarding.

aye indeed they can... much better for if you want to go down the CGI and heavy photoshop use etc as well.

i wouldnt have thought that losing a zip drive would be a big sacrifice in this day and age lol

It does now though. This is hardly suprising it it's early form it didn't support CDR or DVD. But at least macs are developed along side the public instead of microsoft who just shuts themselves away for years then come out saying these are the new standards.

It does now yes, but only if people who bought the G4 anglepoise unit BUY the upgrade..

btw - the reason for zip drive usage is while most unis and colleges have zip drives installed from when CD Writers were more expensive, not all of them have ascribed to the newer technology yet.

I'm sorry but perhaps they should have researched it before hand:shrug:

I have to say that MAC OS 10.0 was really a public beta more than anything they shouldn't have charged for it.

Didn't they provide MAC OS 9 with it? That can use zip drives.

I want this machine now!!!!!

Up to 8gb of ram! Who would need that?
Any way its the first comeputer (i think) with pci-x and Hyper transport. 1gb front side bus.
And fianlly USB 2 support!
Talk about a quick machine!!!!